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Scout And The Injustices In To Kill A Mockingbird By Harper Lee

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Scout and the Injustices In To Kill A Mockingbird

Through the details of the To Kill A Mockingbird case Scout shows her reactions to the injustice in the case. She shows displeasure and wisdom through her thought and feeling throughout the book and Tom Robbinson case.In the book To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Scout's experience with the Tom Robbinson court case influences her understanding of injustice ultimately leading her to learn that not everyone is treated equally and given the same opportunities. Scout gets her knowledge of right and wrong from her father, Atticus, who is a lawyer. Atticus got assigned the Tom Robbinson case and the children asked questions about it. ¨Until my father explained it to me later, I did not understand the subtlety of Tom’s predicament: he would not have dared strike a white woman under any circumstances and expect to live long, so he took the first opportunity to run—a sure sign of guilt.¨(lee 198) This shows that Scout likes to ask her father questions about the case and that he answers them. So she knows the case relatively well, as well as the …show more content…

They had the privilege of people believing them because they were white and people talked to them. ¨Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robbinson, but in the secrets courts of mens hearts Atticus had no case. Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed.¨(lee 224) This shows how as soon as Mayella and her father Bob accused Tom of raping and beating Mayella he was a dead man because he is black. ¨Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it.¨(lee 5) This quote is when Scout first introduces the town and calls it old. It was a small old town in the south meaning it was behind the times and had old views. This is why the racism is so bad and Tom was accused and

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This quote also implies that Tom is different than many that live in Maycomb therefore much contradiction is going to be thrown at Scout. Due to the fact that Atticus accepted the case, Scout is called to

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“ you never really understand someone until you consider things from their point of view.” (lee 36) While standing on the front porch of the radley's place scout reflects on the past two year’s, from arthur's point of view, she finally understands what atticus taught her in chapter three. In to kill a mockingbird scout begins to mature in a way, this does not even begin to occur until the end of the story in chapter 31. Scout is young 9 years to be exact , but she is starting to pick up things here and there on little life lessons atticus has taught her. An example of this is when scout is asked by arthur to walk him home, but she wants to be respectful, she takes him home arm in arm as if he were being a gentleman.

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The novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee follows the childhood of Scout Finch. Scout grew up living in Maycomb, Alabama along with her brother Jem and her father Atticus. In the midst of her childhood Atticus was called upon to represent Tom Robinson, a black man living in Maycomb who was accused of raping a girl named Mayella Ewell. During this time Scout and her family had many hardships due to the towns criticism while doing the right thing and helping an innocent man. In the novel, Harper Lees’ use of tone helped to develop the central idea, which is the importance of having a moral compass.

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Atticus brought a female figure as an influence for Scout in her life. As we read, we can tell that Scout didn’t agree with her father, she didn’t like the idea, but she lied anyways. She’s growing up in the way where she is being able to think things through herself. She is able recognize that sometimes you don’t have to always tell the truth. There are times where you have to tell a little lie.

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This quote emphasizes Atticus' belief in the value of understanding and tolerance for others. He also teaches Scout to avoid judging others, as he says, "Before you can live a part of somebody else's life, you gotta spend a lot of time in their skin" (Chapter 28, page 316). This demonstrates Atticus' belief that understanding and tolerance go hand in hand, and that it is important to understand others before passing judgment on

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This quote illustrates the beginning of Scout’s loss of innocence, which essentially results in her gaining the knowledge of the racist society that she is living in. Scout begins to persecut by kids

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Scout is a very intelligent girl from birth and shows it throughout the novel. She learns to read before she even starts school, which angers her teacher due to an advantage over the other students. Scout is as intelligent as she is because of the way Atticus raised her. For being so young, she comes to understand big concepts quickly. For example, Atticus references the killing of a mockingbird early in the novel and Scout brings is back in conversation in the second to last chapter.

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When Scout questioned Atticus on why he took the trial, Atticus mentioned, “...If I didn’t I couldn’t hold my head up in town, I couldn’t represent this county in the legislature, I couldn’t even tell you or Jem not to do something again.” (Lee, page 100) Atticus took the trial because he believed it was the right thing to do. Since Scout had been going to school with the other kids from Maycomb Country, she heard many negative things about her father and obviously tries to stand up for him, making everyone believe that Atticus is a bad father because he didn’t view “niggers” as less important. As the kids witnessed the actual trial, they were able to realize that Tom Robinson was not guilty and they started to see more from Atticus’s perspective.

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To Kill a Mockingbird is a novel about the child hood of a young girl named Jean Louise Finch. It is about the struggles she faced growing up with racial circumstances in the Southern United States. She is often her referred to as Scout Finch through the novel. Scout lives with her brother Jem and their father Atticus in the town of Maycomb, Alabama. Maycomb is a small town where everybody knows everybody.

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Scouts developments throughout the novel revolve around the lessons she is taught be three people, Calpurnia, Miss Maudie, and Aunt Alexandra. These three characters each have their own lessons to teach including forgiveness, understanding, equality and much more. These lessons allow Scout to have a wider perspective of the situation she finds herself in. Scout in the novel is presented to us as a growing a developing character. The lessons she is taught by her three feminine influences help her development a lot in the throughout the novel as they are a wide variety of lessons most likely helping think of what to do in most situations she finds herself in.

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Scout is a 6 year old child that lives with his brother Jem and his father Atticus who is a lawyer in Maycomb. Scout develops as a character in Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird when she learns to empathize with others by learning more about the Tom Robinson case, Mrs. Dubose conduction and talking to Miss Maudie to know her a bit better.

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As Atticus tells her, "You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view... until you climb into his skin and walk around in it" (Lee 30). This quote shows Scout's developing understanding of others. That is one of the ways Scout comes of age

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Atticus took on the case of Tom Robinson a black man accused of raping a white woman. At this time period in history there was a lot of racial tensions and discrimination especially in the majority racists town of Maycomb. Plenty of people didn’t like the fact that Atticus was defending Tom Robinson so in Chapter 11 when Scout wonders why he is he responds with “This case, Tom Robinson’s case, is something that goes to the essence of a man’s conscience-Scout, I couldn’t go to church and worship God if i didn’t try to help that man.” (139). Scout is able to recognize the prejudice in her town and also be able to not follow their ways.

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    To begin, Scout has an incredible ability to see the big idea of things and think about what other people are feeling. Part of this is due to Atticus being an excellent mentor and father, telling her early on that Scout will “‘never fully understand a person until you consider

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In the book, To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee tells a poignant coming-of-age story about the loss of innocence in the character of Scout. Three significant events illustrate this fact. The first example portrayed in the novel occurred when Scout went to the jail to find out what Atticus was up to, only to find that a mob had arrived to lynch Tom Robinson. This event left Scout with the notion of a mob mentality. Another event was the turning point of the story, the trial of Tom Robinson; this defining moment taught Scout of prejudice and injustice.

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